Dienstag, 29. Juni 2010

IH8YH Interview


IH8YH (GER) produces flyers, video bootlegs (in the past), shirts, graphics and other music related stuff.

Please introduce yourself and what you`re doing.

Hi, my name is Joerg but i commonly go by the nickname "Naggi". Like you already mentioned, I am doing all sorts of artworks for bands, mostly in the hardcore scene, i've done tons of video bootlegs in the past too


Please tell us how you got the idea for your name – I HATE YOUR HEROS (IH8YH).

"I hate your heroes" is a line from an Alec Empire song from his "Intelligence and Sacrifice" album. During the time that record came out, all my so called friends were listening to some stupid bullshit music and they all hailed it as THE one true thing. I hated all that stuff. So when I got that record and heard Empire scream that line it was like 'yeah man!' and I started to use it as tagline kind of. I dont even remember when I started to use the shortform of it but it had probably something to do with the Internet haha. Over all the years it became like a trademark for me, you know... Then i think about 3 years ago my friend Andy from EMBRACED BY HATRED, he's now playing in THE ICE as well, did a Tag-logo of the shortform and I loved it and got it tattooed on my leg.


For which bands did you work? And what did you create for them?

oh man thats such a list... Labelwise i did stuff for Alveran Records (lots of different stuff), Filled With Hate and Massive Bloodshed. On the bandside there are: The Anxiety Infect, Ashaiya (unfortunately they split up so that stuff was never released), Bastard Lovechild from London, Black Friday 29, Blastout, Blood By Dayz still have an unfinished artwork from me that might be used in the future, Brothers In Crime, Bun Dem Out for which I did the artwork of their "The Few The Deep" album, Circle of Death, City To City, Cold Existence from Vegas, Copykill, DLS, Embraced By Hatred, Fallbrawl, For The Glory, Forsaken, From My Hands, Gunned Down, Heavy Hitters from California, In Blood We Trust, Los Muchachos De La Noche, Powermonger from London, Reborn To Conquer, Reduction (I basically did EVERYTHING that you can touch haha), Ruckus, Screamin Silence, Six Ft Ditch, Unit 731, World Gone Mad and probably a few others i've forgotten. you're lucky I'm keeping all my work since a while otherwise that list would have been VERY short. I also did stuff for a new clothing line called "They Live, We Sleep!" with a Conspiracy Theory theme, I did tons of flyers for shows, lots of them for Rico 17 Stitches. Pressure Festival posters, catalogues, some stuff for Crews like DRM, RBS and SOSF, a logo for the Radioshow "Mayhem" and some other stuff. last but not least i've worked with Times of Grace tattoo but thats mainly "put it together"-Stuff like Pete has fixed artwork and wants to have it as a flyer or something like that. that was name dropping galore


With which band / label would you like to work with?

I have some merchstuff for Strapping Young Lad that is unreleased, that would be amazing if that would get printed some day. Crowbar would be a dream and the biggest honor ever. theres not much bands that would be realistic but I'd love to do stuff for other genres maybe, like Doom, Black Metal, and so on. All the dark stuff but anything really. I'd love to do something completely different too, like an Indieband Artwork or something like that. there are even some hardcore bands that would fit to such an artwork. It gets a bit boring to do hardcore all the time.
Labelwise there isnt really something I'd love to do stuff for. Rucktion Records would be cool but they have all their stuff worked out and it always looks good so thats ok :)


How does it work? Do you ask the bands for a job or do they ask you to design something?

Mostly its bands coming to me asking for a shirt design or whatever they need. Or like Rico17Stitches how is coming to me every week with a new flyer haha. that guy is insane... I'll try to get into the style of the band then if they have no special wishes for the design. So i listen to their music, check out their lyrics and the way they are and then try to come up with something that fits their overall style.
But sometimes I get an idea for a specific band and I just do it to see what it looks like. Like REDUCTION. I'd say 95% of their stuff is coming from my brain. Its pretty easy since their singer and me like the same stuff music and movie wise, we are both sick individuals haha, So when i have an idea like "oh... people burning on the stake" I know he will like that, so i just do my ideas and most of it gets printed. It works the same with Six Ft Ditch for example. I'll send it to them then and if they wanna do it cool, if not it's cool too.


Are your drawings for free or do you earn some cash for it?

It's more of a hobby for me and it also depends on who is asking. Reduction for example is getting everything for free since i know their singer for like 10 years or so. So good friends pay less haha. But i also had the cases where i said "listen... normally i'd take XX€ for that but it only took me like 10 minutes so give me XX€ instead, its cool" or when i really had fun doing something I will take less as well. but i'm still not expensive if you have to pay the full price haha. I don't make a lot of it but it pays some shows.


When you search the internet (especially youtube) you`ll find thousands live bootlegs of shows filmed by amateur / hobby filmers. We remind all the great stuff you uploaded years ago. Is it possible that you shoot some videos again?

If you buy me a good videocamera, I will start shooting shows again hahaha. You know it's funny kinda. Even close friends still ask me "dude did you film us last week?" for example. but my cam broke more than 2 years ago. It became such a common thing... Me taping the Shows. It kind of is branded into peoples heads that I was the guy with the Cam filming every show. Theres a hupe box with something like 300 Tapes of unreleased FULL SHOWS somewhere at the Massive Bloodshed "Office" that NO ONE has ever seen except me and Samis. DON't ask me if I plan to release that stuff to youtube some day, cause I don't.


You are Straight edge for more than 10 years, aren`t you? So we two guys aren`t sXe, but in our opinion it`s a lifestyle for yourself, not for other. If we remember correctly we never ever saw you in “sXe-merch”. What do you think about all the HC-Kids, who wear a sXe-shirt, mesh short, clock, belt and shoes? Also this kind of guys who present this attitude extremely?

I'm Straight Edge since birth. so almost 29 Years now and counting. I have two or three Edge-Shirts, yeah It's three I think but I don't wear them often. Like you mentioned, It's something I do for myself. A pledge I made while my father was an alcoholic when I was a little kid. I swore to myself never to put anyone through the stuff my family had to go through because of his weakness. So i never tried alcohol or drugs or cigarettes. It's something you really do for yourself and maybe for a few loved ones like in my case. I think that the more outspoken people are about being straight edge, the more likely they are to drop it again. You kinda can tell when someone is just in it for a while and is as outspoken in like 2 years as i was in 10 years of knowingly being Straight Edge. (because I didnt knew there was a scene for my way of living when i was younger, I only got to know about that when I got into hardcore of course) It's like... you don't see normal people sporting shirts with "I don't do Heroin, i just drink" because they know that Heroin is the worst shit and it will very likely kill them in the end. So why should someone who's not doing alcohol sport that on a shirt?! There's no point to it in my opinion. You just do that stuff and thats it. But it's really up to everyone themselves how outspoken you wanna be about it but remember... the higher your throne the deeper the fall.
People that know me might think now "hey, you got Drug Free tattooed..." so what. It's my leg, its my skin, i have the oath I've given to myself put under my skin as a reminder. thats not YOUR business since its not your body.


Furthermore you coach a HC-Community (slamdancers.net). Everyone who is in HC (or thinks he is) can register to exchange information, opinions and stuff like this. Please tell us something about this board.

slamdancers yeah. It was started several years ago by my friend Tom, whom I got to know from bootlegging shows, he did that too. Since we were listening to the more mosh-oriented style of Hardcore, the stuff that now has degenerated into "beatdown" now, we had people from those bands on the board when it started cause they were our friends. so over time it grew to almost a thousand users until we decided to close the board. the people just posted too much stupid bullshit and we didnt like that so we kicked about 700 people out, closed the board and cleaned it up. We just kept all the people we knew personally and the ones that were really cool. Because of that the board got the reputation of being full of haters and stuff like that. So we had it closed down for about 3 years. During that time the small community got very close and we all became friends! Late last year we decided to open it up again but it all happened like i predicted it. with Beatdown being the latest trend all those idiots came to the board again. The problem with these people now is, they come into a tight group of friends. Its like you are out having a BBQ with your good friends and someone foreign knocks on the door of your garden and whats some of the meat too. So all new people are put through some kind of mental obstacle course and frankly 90% don't make. either they get kicked out again sooner or later or they sometimes even leave themselves haha. Of course all that doesnt give the board a good reputation but i couldn't care less. It's mainly a board for this "core-group" of members that know each other for years. If too much new people piss me off too much, I'll just close it down again for a while. I don't give a shit. There's so many other boards out there that anyone can join.
So.... join and try your luck haha! see if we like you! Chances is we don't


You know that we like Brain-Storming… so here we go:

Mezzo Mix?
blood in bottles and i'm the vampire. tastes best in cans though haha


PS3 or X-Box 360?
PS3. It's a Sith Console!


Violent Dancing?
Outlet of Anger. Violent Fun between friends. What's a little blood between the ones we love.


Worldcup 2010?
totally sucks! the referees should be executed.


Your favourite band?
All out war. period. and A Fine Frenzy in the "non-hard-music" sector.



check out:
www.ihateyourheroes.de
but don't really check it out haha. it's my personal blog and full of boring bullshit I care about that mostly have nothing to do with hardcore.

DEATH DO US PART Interview



Please give us an introduction of DEATH DO US PART (NJ, USA) members and your band.

Thank you for the opportunity to answer some questions. So I guess I will start with our frontman Cris Tedesco, on guitar we have Craig Lennox, on drums is Steve Banack, playing bass is Greg Moore, and lastly on guitar and singing is myself (Tom Lennox).


How long have you all known each other? How did you meet?

Well naturally me and my brother know each other because we're brothers haha. As for Greg he has been a good friend of my brother and I from High School. We aquired Steve because my brother Craig is playing guitar for Years Spent Cold. We had lost a drummer so my brother asked steve and he was more than happy to help us out. Cris we met because he actually came to a lot of our shows. He was in another band and we were very impressed with his voice. I then contacted Cris on myspace and he jumped to the opportunity to jam with us. So some of us have known each other longer than the other members.


When did you form the band DEATH DO US PART? And who are your influences?

We formed DDUP around December 2001 playing shows around the South Jersey area and here and there we would play a weekend in NY or PA. We really didn't start any kind of serious touring till 2005 around the time we release our full length "Legend". Late start I know haha. Our influences are Killswitch Engage, Black Dahlia Murder, and to be honest every band we listen to influences us.


You got a new album out,which is called "Keep on Keepn' on". Tell us something about this new record. Are there any changes to the last devastating last album „Legend“ ?

Definately new changes. We took a big step up in our song writing in "Keep on Keepn' on" compared to "Legend". When we wrote "Legend" our songs didn't have a whole lot of structure. It was a more underground metal/hardcore cd packed with tons of riffs. Which was awesome for the time. We tried to put as much energy as we could into that album. So our songs ended up being kinda long. Also we had our old singer writing the lyrics at that time. He had a totally different lyrical style than I. Although I did write the lyrics for a few songs in "Legend". After the popularity of our song "In Rememberance" off of "Legend". We realized that is the direction we needed to go. So we shortened up our songs and tried to make them as memorable as possible and take a step up. You will notice there is more of a structure in "Keep on Keepn' on" compared to "Legend'. We put in less breakdowns but made them even more brutal, catchier melodic riffs, repeated riffs, more singing, and also I stepped up and wrote all the lyrics for that album so I could make lyrics that are universal and touch base with all listeners. So yes it was a big step up and plan for more changes as we go along. We plan on keeping the listeners interest by reinventing ourselves in every album.


Who writes your songs?

Musically my brother Craig and I write the music. As for the lyrics I write those.


"In Rememberance“. What is this song about?

Originally it was written about a friend who didn't take care of himself, no one in particular, and was unable to be saved because they didn't want to be. But shortly after that song was recorded, a close friend of ours commited suicide. So now we dedicate that song to him and we miss him very much.


Can you briefly describe the music you play?

Intense and highly energetic with lyrics that are universal.


Are there any funny DEATH DO US PART tour stories?

Plenty haha. We were in Ohio this one time with our friends from Give Em Hell and we got to the gig early. So we decided to walk around the city we were in and found a mall. So we were walking around in the mall and our old singer strum saw a store for his cell phone so he went over to ask a question about his phone. Craig then ran up behind him and pantsed him underwear and all haha. Funny thing about it was he didn't know what to do so he just stood there for a second with his pants down and looked at the cell phone guy he was talking to. Finally embarassed he pulled up his pants and turned around giggling and running back to catch up with us.


Would you like to play in Europe? Especially in Germany? Are there any plans for the future?

Absolutely. We had plans to do a European tour at one point but we had so many member changes between I guess 2005 till now that it hasn't been possible. The member changing thing has been the biggest factor in us not touring constantly. But you never know what the future holds. If we can work out a European tour we def will.


Your last album came out on Filled with Hate records. Nils and Axel are very cool guys. What do you say about that collaboration with FWH?

We love those guys. I consider Nils a good friend of mine even though we've never met in person. We keep in contact through the internet and have since before we signed to FWH.


When someone wanna buy your merch? Where can we find it?

On our official site we have a web store. We don't have much merch left but if you can't find an item you've seen before on our site feel free to contact us on myspace or facebook. We will try to answer you as soon as possible.
You can also buy our cds on ITUNES if you are interested.


And now…. BRAINSTORMING !!

International House of Pancakes (IHOP)?
Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Vegan?
Nope we live outside of Philly and the cheesesteaks are amazing


sXe?
Nope we get our drink on. Aside from that we are drug free.

McDonalds or Burger King?
Def the BK lounge


Germany?
Hope to play there sometime



Any last words?

Thanks for the interview and the interest in our band. Make sure to keep updated on us by visiting our myspace or official site.


Thank you for that interview, we really really appreciate that!!!

If you wanna check out DEATH DO US PART:
www.myspace.com/deathdouspart
www.deathdouspartmetal.com
www.purevolume.com/deathdouspartnj

Sonntag, 20. Juni 2010

MASSIVE BLOODSHED RECORDS Interview



MASSIVE BLOODSHED RECORDS (GER) ist ein Label für Hardcore, Metal und Battlerap. Das Label wurde 2007 gegründet und ist im guten, alten Ruhrgebiet ansässig.

Nachfolgendes Interview wurde mit Thrasher, einem der beiden Masterminds hinter MBR geführt.

Thrasher, vorab vielen Dank, dass du dir Zeit nimmst, die Fragen zu beantworten.
2007 wurde MASSIVE BLOODSHED RECORDS gegründet. Wer ist noch mit an Bord, und was hat euch bewegt ein Label zu gründen?

Gegründet haben das Label Samis, Sänger der Band REDUCTION und ich. Wir waren beide sehr an Musik interessiert. Samis ist schon lange in der Hardcoreszene dabei und ich habe Musikmanagement studiert und war von der Idee begeistert. Ein Hauptgrund war, dass wir beide die Band Reduction gegründet hatten und nicht von anderen abhängig sein wollten. Ausserdem wollten wir befreundete Bands supporten und unsere und deren Musik zu erschwinglichen Preisen veröffentlichen. Das Problem heutzutage ist einfach, dass eine CD im Laden bis zu 18,99 kostet und es viel billiger und recht leicht ist, sich die Musik im Internet zu klauen. Daher haben wir von Anfang an darauf geachtet die CD`s so günstig wie möglich zu halten um möglichst viele Einheiten zu verkaufen. Wichtig zu wissen ist vielleicht, dass Massive Bloodshed Records nicht gewinnorientiert arbeitet. Wir haben von Anfang an unser privat verdientes Geld in die Sache investiert und jeder Cent der eingenommen wird, geht wieder in den Support der Bands und in kommende Veröffentlichungen. Wir machen uns die ganze Arbeit hauptsächlich um die Szene am Leben zu halten oder zumindest einen kleinen Teil dazu beizutragen.


Welche Bands befinden sich aktuell auf MBR und welche Veröffentlichungen sind bisher erschienen?

Schwierig. Die erste VÖ war die GUNNED DOWN/FROM MY HANDS Split Cd glaub ich. Danach kam das REDUCTION Album, BROTHERS IN CRIME folgten, dann BLESSED BY HATE und zuletzt erschien die DIE FOR YOUR HONOUR CD. Wer aktuell auf unserem Label von diesen Bands releasen wird, ist noch offen. Wir machen immer nur Verträge über eine CD. Das ist vor allem von Vorteil für die Bands, falls sich ein besserer Vertrag bietet, können diese dann sofort zu einem anderen Label wechseln. Wir freuen uns natürlich aber auch, wenn die Bands weiterhin mit uns zusammenarbeiten möchten. Definitiv auf MASSIVE BLOODSHED RECORDS sind DLS, von denen ein Release ansteht… man darf gespannt sein. Und solange die anderen Bands welche wir veröffentlicht haben keinen anderen Deal haben, und selbst wenn doch, können sie weiterhin mit unserer tatkräftigen Unterstützung rechnen.


Und mit welchen Releases kann die Fangemeinde in naher Zukunft rechnen?

Wie gesagt was auf jeden Fall ansteht ist das DLS Album. Ich denke auch von REDUCTION wird es in absehbarer Zeit eine neue Veröffentlichung geben und das andere ist noch mehr oder weniger geheim.


Nehmt ihr jede x-beliebige Band unter Vertrag oder geht ihr auf Bands zu und bietet Ihnen eine Zusammenarbeit an?

Nein wir nehmen nicht jede Band an. Das würde schon finanziell nicht funktionieren. Wir kriegen tatsächlich jede Menge Demos zugeschickt, die wir leider nicht alle berücksichtigen können. Wir gehen auf Bands zu oder sie auf uns. Wenn wir potential sehen, werden die Bedingungen einer möglichen Zusammenarbeit ausgelotet und wenn alles passt, wird die Band gesigned.


Was muss eine Band an Erfahrung / Fähigkeiten etc. mitbringen, um bei MBR gesigned zu werden?

Na, die Bands müssen zumindest gut sein und vernünftige Musik abliefern.


Ich meine, 2008 wär`s gewesen, da hatte ich mal von einer Ruhrpott-Hardcore-DVD gehört, die ihr veröffentlichen wolltet. Also ein Zusammenschnitt aus diversen HC-Shows. Kannst du uns dazu etwas sagen?

Das ist ein Langzeitprojekt, was eigentlich von Anfang an geplant war und immer noch ist. Es gibt da viele Schwierigkeiten. So sollte ein ganzes Konzert von MASSIVE BLOODSHED REOCRDS gefilmt werden, von welchem wir aber bis heute kein Material erhalten haben und so weiter. Das ist nicht einfach. Zumal damals noch nicht jeder 2. eine HD Cam hatte und alte Konzerte teilweise in echt mieser Qualität gefilmt sind… was sicherlich auch seinen Charme hat. Aber unter Berücksichtigung der Tatsache das heute jeder Veranstalter sein Konzert mit einer HD Cam filmen lässt und sagt er macht eine DVD davon, weiss ich nicht wie gut die Videos in der alten Qualität ankommen würde. Aber ich denke die Sache ist noch lange nicht vom Tisch. Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben. DLS sollten immerhin auch schon seit 2 Jahren was veröffentlichen oder so. Und das passiert ja nun auch endlich. Grüße an Sandro übrigens.^^


Im November 2009 gab es mal eine MBR-Show mit u.a. REDUCTION, BROTHERS IN CRIME und FROM MY HANDS. Ist mit sowas in Bälde wieder zu rechnen oder war es eine einmalige Sache?

Ich denke so was wird wieder stattfinden. Das Problem ist hier eine Location zu finden. Hier ist alles irgendwie so Vetternwirtschafstmässig und dann mag der eine den anderen nicht und deshalb gibt’s die Location nicht o.ä. Ich glaube aber schon, dass wir so was Ende diesen Jahres wiederholen werden. Vermutlich dann in Eigenregie.


Neben dem Label, beschäftigt ihr euch noch anderweitig in Sachen Musik, Also, spielt ihr in Bands oder Ähnliches?

Klar, Samis sing nach wie vor bei REDUCTION wo ich vor längerer Zeit schon ausgestiegen bin und ich spiele in der Metalband THE ANXIETY INFECT.


Bevor wir nun dieses Interview beenden: BRAINSTORMING!!

Aktuelle HC-Szene im Pott?
Kleiner als vor einigen Jahren aber stabil. Leider für meinen Geschmack zu viel gelaber und hinterm Rücken rumgemache.

Fußball? Wen lieben wir?! V F L ! :D

Faschismus?
Genau der selbe Menschenverachtende Dreck wie Kommunismus. Che Guevarra = Joseph Goebbels = Joseph Stalin = Adolf Hitler = Mao Tse Tung… alles dumme Verbrecher.

Berliner Untergrund-Rap?
Keine Ahnung.^^

Politk?
Sehr wichtig. Leider haben junge Menschen viel zu oft keine Ahnung davon und rennen mit roten Sternen oder Hakenkreuzen auf ihren Klamotten rum. Parteien wie NPD, DVU, DIE LINKE etc. die sollten alle verboten werden.


Nochmals vielen Dank für dieses Interview! Weiterhin viel Erfolg für MBR und hohe Verkaufszahlen!!


Für weitere Information checkt:
www.myspace.com/massivebloodshedrecords

Samstag, 19. Juni 2010

A NEW BLOG IS BORN!



A new blog full of shit is born.

Und alle so: yeah!

In this blog we give you interviews around the HC/Metal-scene.

Some interviews are in english some in german. So it`s better for you to command both languages.

Ha! Ha!


All interviews are done by ourselves.


We`re gonna refresh this blog irregeular. Depending on whether we got time and desire.



If you like it - cool

If not - cool (and piss off)

We don`t care.



Don`t hesitate to contact us:

Benny:

http://www.facebook.com/wzudemunsch59

and

Daniel:

http://www.facebook.com/daniel.vollmar1

or

www.myspace.com/haterzbedamned


Daniel & Benny